Anyone here do martial arts?

[Dr Doom]

Boxing for 2 years so far. Wanna work on my wrestling and learn more about kickboxibgso I guess you can say MMA.

 

[Berimbolo No Jutsu]

i did boxing for 8 years in some hole in the wall gym
i did bjj for a few years...i think it was 2...i trained at Serra
i've done Jeet Kune Do but then the gym closed and i never looked for a new one
i took a few muay thai classes i might do it again...it did that a Serra too
right now i do kick boxing more as a way to stay in shape then to learn

So you're from long island? Where did you box? and when were you at Serra's? I used to stop in there once in a while between 2004-2008ish, and I boxed out of atlantic in shirley for a while too.

It's only been referred to by that name because of the sudden outbreak of "ninja" depictions into the mainstream in the last few decades.

But really, unless you're focusing on H2H solely, it's ninjutsu.

I went to Chiba, in Japan to train for just over 5 1/2 years, although obviously with school clashing at the time, mean't that my training was on-and-off constantly. I acheived what I had wanted to, and left to develop my own fighting style.

or save 5,000$ a dan, lol. Weather Hatsumi or Tanemura lineage, their is a lot of money without a lot of evidence. All relies on Takamatsu and his story doesn't really add up. I value what I learned, but I was attracted to the art for the wrong reasons and left to pursue more functional and effective styles. You should do the same, don't try to re-invent the wheel before you learn how it works

I've done Tae Kwon Do for some years, I took some boxing classes along with some other sports. I was quite good at Tae Kwon Do I almost entered tournaments but then the gym closed. I never looked for another one, nowadays I just workout to keep myself fit.

find another one!

I practiced Goju Ryu Taijutsu for a while but then took a break to find new Sensai's since my old ones drank and smoked all the time during training. I loved it before their egos got in the wayand till away the fun of sparring.

doesn't sound like a very healthy place to train TBH. I would have found a new one anyway...

Boxing for 2 years so far. Wanna work on my wrestling and learn more about kickboxibgso I guess you can say MMA.

If you want to get into MMA Boxing is over-rated as a base. I can tell you from experience. 90% of the footworkj and head movement that is great in boxing will hurt you in MMA. Wrestling is extremely important. Also start learning how to apply your boxing to muay thai. That is a great base for a stand up fighter. You'll need some submission game too though. Most BJJ gyms offer all that these days.

 

[MuerteMiAmigo]

So you're from long island? Where did you box? and when were you at Serra's? I used to stop in there once in a while between 2004-2008ish, and I boxed out of atlantic in shirley for a while too.

Ah i started bjj in 2010 my sr year of high school and stopped after i broke my ankle just never got back into it
Do you no matt and nick? And Karate Mike lol
I went to one of those boxing gyms that just says "Boxing" on the sign lol

 

[Berimbolo No Jutsu]

Ah i started bjj in 2010 my sr year of high school and stopped after i broke my ankle just never got back into it
Do you no matt and nick? And Karate Mike lol
I went to one of those boxing gyms that just says "Boxing" on the sign lol

I know matt and nick. The main instructors were Joe Scarola and Tom Muller though. I don't think any of them are there anymore besides Matt though.

 

[BlacLord™]

or save 5,000$ a dan, lol. Weather Hatsumi or Tanemura lineage, their is a lot of money without a lot of evidence. All relies on Takamatsu and his story doesn't really add up. I value what I learned, but I was attracted to the art for the wrong reasons and left to pursue more functional and effective styles. You should do the same, don't try to re-invent the wheel before you learn how it works

As I implied, I no longer study there because I reached a certain rank. And your point about it being ineffective is balderdash, the most important thing about this style is the instructor; an average BBT instructor won't be able to teach you in a very fitting manner. It's a very fine art, and requires a fine teacher to learn it properly; that's why I went to the Honbu Dojo in Chiba.

Anyway, all of the martial arts I've ever studied were only ever a means to an end.

 

[Berimbolo No Jutsu]

As I implied, I no longer study there because I reached a certain rank. And your point about it being ineffective is balderdash, the most important thing about this style is the instructor; an average BBT instructor won't be able to teach you in a very fitting manner. It's a very fine art, and requires a fine teacher to learn it properly; that's why I went to the Honbu Dojo in Chiba.

Anyway, all of the martial arts I've ever studied were only ever a means to an end.

As far as ineffectiveness context is implied. Ineffective in a fight wear you aren't carrying your ninja weapons against a trained fighter in something like BJJ or MMA. If you think I'm lying go to the nearest BJJ gym with a legitimate black belt and ask to spar. If you don't feel like a helpless child feel free to tell me I was wrong. Against an untrained attacker in a general situation it will be effective of course. I know what rank you implied. The ones that line Hatsumi's pockets. lol. It's the only art with more than 10 mdan's for a reason.

Before you tell me about how you have handled yourself against BJJ black belts. I have trained with many top tier shidoshi from the Hombu Dojo, including Stephen Hayes. He would be a blue belt in any legit BJJ gym (generously speaking), just to give you an idea. Even training with a good BJJ blue or purple belt will make you reevaluate your thoughts if you are not completely brainwashed. That was how I got into it. If you tell me you've handled yourself against a BJJ black belt I will know it is not an honest answer. Please don't insult my intelligence with that natural defensive response. Be open minded and try that challenge out. A bjj black belt won't be offended, they would be happy to spar with you

 

[Netferarri]

Yeah I did, I did it at Twisted Tree Martial Arts.

Also, did boxing and Tapout.

 

[Akasha]

Karate for about 6 years O_O

And box ._.

 

[Berimbolo No Jutsu]

I guess I should have started... here is a story of my experience so I seem like less of a know-it-all ****. Not trying to be, just been there, thought that, and learned better on a lot of things people say, lol.

Anyway martial arts has basically been the core of my entire life, my first apartment was a little room in the back of a dojo. I started with martial arts in Kenpo and Boxing when I was a kid. My aunt was a golden gloves champ in NY, and my grandfather and uncles all competed in boxing their whole lives. I was always drawn to martial arts though (probably why I got into naruto too), so I begged my mom to sign me up for karate, and I got Kenpo which is pretty much the same thing. Anyway after a couple years we moved, and I tried a few other arts including Shaolin Kung Fu, Judo, and Shotokan Karate. then when I was old enough to join wrestling in middle school I did. I loved wrestling but wasn't that great in competition. I wasn't the worst, but my division was really competitive and I had a lot of matches where I got creamed. In boxing I only did a few smokers, and fought guys beneath my level so usually won pretty easy, though there were a lot of guys that could have whooped my ass. I just hated losing and ducked them (ego flaw of a kid)

Anyway, then I started wanting to do basically every martial art. I worshipped the martial artists of the past like Bruce lee, and studied him constantly. I trained in JKD under one of Dan Inasanto's top students, and learned a lot about JKD and stick fighting. I also got into krav maga under the same instructor who was certified high level instructor. through him I eventually also became certified to teach, but I was heavily drawn to ninjutsu, and ended up drifting off to a local Ninjutsu dojo when I was about 18 right after I started to teach krav/boxing at a local Japanese jujutsu dojo.

Anyway loved ninjutsu, and it introduced me to "submission grappling. my school brought in some great fighters to teach all kinds of stuff, and I started to branch out and crosstrain the right way for the first time ever. I started learning Catch and sambo after a seminar with Frank Shamrock, then I started watching UFC and got even more into it. I took my first 2 MMA fights that year, and won both in the 1st round by TKO. but then I actually went to a REAL Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu school that trained UFC fighters and contained BJJ black belts. I actually went their for Capoeira (I only did this for a few months, but I LOVE it), then one day the BJJ guys (who I thought were a bunch of ego maniacs and tough guys) got me on the mats knowing i did ninjutsu and other arts.

BJJ guys get a bad rap amongst other martial arts as being arrogant etc. I purposely avoided them because I had seen this, and had been told this. I was also told it was one dimensional and not realistic for fighting/self-defense, but recent UFC footage I saw of the gracie brothers had me doubting that. I was told I was learning the same stuff in my Dojo's grappling, and had no reason to doubt that. It's impossible to see the differences, they can only be fealt.

What these BJJ guys didn't know is that out of all the non-BJJ schools in the area I was more or less the best grappler (a lot to do with my wrestling background and natural love for it), even after a couple months in ninjutsu I was tapping out almost every black belt in almost every school (with the exception of the highest tier masters), and was going to almost every ninjutsu, jujutsu, sambo, catch, whatever school I could to learn new things and train with new people. I was very confident in my ability, and thought it wouldn't be much different here. The first white belt I went with was better than over 90% of the traditional black belts I had ever trained with. He was strong as hell, but I managed to catch him with a sneaky submission.

The instructor saw this, and was impressed. I was in shock since I felt like he dominated the crap out of me and I got lucky at the end, but the instructor asked to train with me and I did.

He LITERALLY went in slow motion and proceeded to rape the **** out of me...

I had never been handled like that. Even sparring with world champions and training with masters in other martial arts, and shoot Sugar Shane Mosely even sparred with me in the boxing gym a couple times, but there is nothing that can make you feel more helpless than a good BJJ fighter if you don't know BJJ.

He only tapped me out as many times as he wanted to and then said I did awesome. I couldn't even believe what happened. I went home and thought about all the times I could have thrown in an eye gouge if my life depended on it, but really I was just trying to justify the gap...

I signed up the next day as a student in muay thai and BJJ, but continued with ninjutsu too. I stopped teaching though and focused on only being a student. I refused to teach again until I could do to my other instructors what that BJJ purple belt (the instructor) did to me in my first real BJJ experience. After about 3 years I got there. Now almost 10 years later I'm fulltime.

So anyway not a BJJ superiority thing. All martial arts have something great to offer, and all are great at what they were created for. I think everyone should train, no matter what art you choose to do. If you're going to stick with it without getting brainwashed and turning into an egomaniac, then it's good for you. Just know their flaws. When It comes to actually fighting Mixed martial arts is clearly the best. It literally combines all the best fighting techniques from all martial arts. Many martial arts claim to do this, but for MMA it's actually true. MMA has the flaw of focusing on FAIR fighting, so when people pull out weapons, gang up, etc. it will be outside of your comfort zone. The thing is the mentality, which is the difference between competition and self-defense. The good part is in MMA you are training to beat people sooooo much stronger than anyone you will fight in the street that they have to pull out a weapon or gang up to even have a chance. But because of the difference in mentality I added that experience from my old martial arts training into my MMA style, particularly when teaching.

for sneaking up on feudal lords and assassinating their ass ninjutsu is dope, but I eventually decided that for my goals it didn't fit, as cool as it was. I loved practicing ninpo though, and wanted to earn the title Renshi so I could be a master ninja, haha (never made it that far).

I still have a ton of friends in the ninpo, BBT, KM, and traditional martial arts community, but now I'm a professional Mixed Martial Arts competitor and instructor. I also teach self defense for police and run a program on the military bases here. And for some reason I got hooked in this ninja manga....

So currently I train and compete specifically in BJJ (Black), Judo (Brown), Muay Thai, and MMA. I also teach BJJ, Submission Wrestling, Boxing, MMA, and Self Defense Specific classes that pull from all my past experience.

 

[Tolunay]

I train since 7 month at an School
We are learning boxing, Muay Thai, and ground fighting but my master ist still specializing his teachings on wing chun
but rather then using the more traditional style our sifu is teaching us an combat style which we can use to protect ourselves in the modern society
we also do escrima
Man i love this School so much, i am thiincking of doing seperately kyokushin Karate but i am still not sure if i should do it or not

btw here is an video

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[Desiigner]

I did Karate for 4 years, TKD for 2 years and since 5 years I'm doing Muay Thai/Kick boxing. Other than that I play Basketball. u_u